| Ed,
There's little chance of anyone else catching up to you anyway. You're the HCH champ!
Mark On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Ed Anderson <eanderson@carolina.rr.com> wrote:
Ok, Mark, but that detracts 2 points from your
"Hairy Chested Hero" credit {:>)
Ed
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 7:20 PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Back to Phase 1 testing
Gee, two
rotors to come home on doesn't provide much excitement,
Ed,
That's the whole point
of going with a 3-rotor, that and MORE POWER!!!
BWAAAAAHHHHH
Mark
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Ed Anderson <eanderson@carolina.rr.com>
wrote:
Gee, two rotors to come home on doesn't provide much
excitement, Tracy.
Sort of reminds me way back in the old days of using
the Rx-7 ignition coils and ballast resistors blowing on them. For some
reason seems like that only happened to you and me.
We are all awaiting
some performance numbers for that RV8-3R, so next time take your bottle and
give those Ls1 coils a real try
out.
Ed
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From:
"Tracy" <rwstracy@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 2:13
PM
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re:
Back to Phase 1 testing
Was finally getting around to doing hot weather cooling
and altitude performance testing in the RV-8 yesterday. Cooling was
good during a high power climb to 14500 ft where I leveled out ( I had
forgotten to put the Ox bottle in the plane). Throttled up to WOT to
see where the speed topped out at but. After less than a minute I
felt some engine roughness and noticed rotor 3 EGT went above alarm
threshold so I throttled back to low power. #3 EGT then went low off
scale and I could tell that the engine was only running on 2 rotors.
I then smelled a faint electrical burning smell that lasted about 2 minutes.
Engine was surprisingly smooth for having a dead rotor and still had
more than enough power for cruise flight but obviously it was time to get
back on the ground and find out what went wrong. did all the usual
diagnostics on the long glide down with no joy.
Made normal landing,
poped off the cowl and coil diagnostics test revealed that both coils on
rotor 3 were dead. I had done the coil disable tests prior to takeoff
so I know they were both good then. I'm using RX-8 coils and there
have been too many failures for me to feel good about them any longer.
I ordered a set of LS-1s to replace
them.
Tracy
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